Swan

A tartan of the Swan family.

Its design is pattern BKBKWK — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.

The Swan tartan groups 3 setts — the same named design recorded as different cloths (its kilt, Carpet, Child's…, or a transcription apart). The master sett (★) is the exemplar.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
SwanK/12 W8 K72 B72 K8 B/123442002
Swan sett
(Name)0.10K/12 W8 K72 T72 K8 T/12344~2002
(Name) sett
Brian E0.65W/6 K54 DB34 K12 DB34 K/122862011
Brian E sett

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Nearest tartans

The nearest NAMED TARTANS — each represented by its master sett — by ΔTartan distance from this tartan's master, which leads the table so the swatches line up against it.

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 10814 named tartans (their master setts) placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its master cloth. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.

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